radio poems and pop songs.  let the movie happen in your mind.

cosmic dream radio is a podcast featuring unconventional readings of original and classic poems:  

www.luminouswork.org/podcast 

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cosmic dream radio

WC Handy's song Yellow Dog Blues. I was listening to PRI like I do every morning, this morning I heard about the Blues Challenge so I grabbed my guitar and set up a digital recorder. My wife and I live in an RV in Old Town, Fort Collins, Colorado and there is plenty of construction going on right now. Maybe it helped out the recording? Hope you like the song, I had fun recording it.

Yellow Dog Blues

Band (violin + voice): Ari Swan (cello + percussion) Quinn Brander
Recorded by Quinn Brander at the Creaky Floor Studios
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Cover: Yellow Dog Blues

A poem sandwiched between two slices of pop-esque.  Bleakness must exist.  Better keep your coat, lovers.

bicycle coat

Heart/hart, night/knight, pen/pin, a forest, swords, and clouds.   A tarot card inspires this track.  Learn more about it at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2016/8/9/three-swords

three swords

For Valentine's Day, Excepts of Gregory Orr's lyric sequence, _Orpheus & Eurydice_ published by Copper Canyon Press in 2001.

How can I celebrate love now that I know what it does?

Learn more about this poem and hear the podcast intro at:  www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2017/orr-orpheus

Orpheus & Eurydice by Greogry Orr

Recorded on July 7, 2017, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Susan Howe: from "Periscope"

A new poem read normally.  Because it's cataclysmic all on its own.

Learn more about this lyrical, liturgical poem at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2017/7/31/christmas-trees

Cosmic Dream Radio

Christmas Trees

I worry about climate change and see teatime as an implement to planetary destruction.  This poem broadcast as Episode 13 of the Cosmic Dream Radio podcast.  Learn more about the poem at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2018/worryworryworry or go to www.luminouswork.org/podcast.

every season something to fear

Music by Matt Marks
Lyrics by Royce Vavrek
Performed by Alarm Will Sound, Live at Mizzou 7/11

http://soundcloud.com/matt-marks

A Song for Wade (This is not that song)

A radio-play style reading about walking a shore-line on the longest night of the year.  

learn more at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2018/5/29/seqsolstice

sequence from the solstice

Eng11EmilyDickinsonBcICouldNotStopForDeath

"A Walk in the Botanical Gardens" by Coleman Barks, read by we-serve-pure-honey

The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens, read by Peter Danbury

poet, dream chanteuse.
cosmic dream radio is my podcast of strange poetry readings
these fountains rare here my genre-bending concept album.

bicycle coat

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